Question

I have a textfile (.txt) on a server. It contains only one word i.e. ON or OFF. How can i use JQuery or Pure Javascript to read that word from the file.

I am thinking along the lines of $.ajax.

Answer 1

You could use the $.get method to send a GET AJAX request to a resource located on the server:

$.get('/foo.txt', function(result) {
    if (result == 'ON') {
        alert('ON');
    } else if (result == 'OFF') {
        alert('OFF');
    } else {
        alert(result);
    }
});